Audiosurf is a breathtaking visual and audio experience
User Rating: 9.5 | AudioSurf PC
Audiosurf developed by Best Game Ever Studios and found on the Steam download service is a visually enthralling game that will send your mind into chaos. Audiosurf combines rhythm and puzzle games into a hybrid that is fun and addicting. The premise is to pilot one of many spaceships' and crash into colored blocks to make color combos. The more blocks you can string together the bigger the combo and more points will be accumulated. Audiosurf takes any music track on your computer and analyzes it into a set track where the environment changes with the beats of the music. It sounds simple and for the most part it is simple. The game takes your selected song and turns it into a set roller coaster path, and if the song is intense enough the track will twist and turn all over the place. The first time this happened I sat there and said out loud, "Holy **** Audiosurf gives the player hundreds of options from different characters to different variations of play. The game features more than 12 characters divided into three levels of play: beginner, pro, and elite. There is also an ironmode that ramps up the difficulty even further. The game can be as easy or difficult as the player wants, but even when the levels are difficult the game remains a blast to play. With different characters come different types of play. The mono characters have to crash into the color blocks while avoiding the grey blocks. The other characters have to match different colors together to match three or more blocks. The mono characters were the most fun to play because of their simplicity; the other characters can become frustrating due to trying to match three of the same color. As you get into elite and ironmode the number of colors increase from 3 possible matches to 6 different colors. The game grades your performance and you can achieve bronze, silver, and gold medals. Also after every song the score the player gets is uploaded and you can instantly see how you stack up against players from the world, your country, and even your state. Audiosurf is one of the best looking games of the year. The crazy colors and the way the backgrounds pulsate will cause your eyes to go numb from pure pleasure. Even on my crappy laptop computer the visuals were stunning and breathtaking. I cannot stress enough how visually pleasing Audiosurf is, and it is a new way to listen to your favorite music. Audiosurf automatically imports all of the music files on your computer and in five seconds you can have your song selected and ready to go. The user interface is easy to use and the load times are nothing even though the engine analyzes the song to create the track. With all of the modes of play, unique characters, and depending on the amount of music you have on your computer you could be playing Audiosurf for months if not years. The game also comes with the complete Orange Box soundtrack by Valve and the songs on the soundtrack are all great to play with Audiosurf, especially "Still Alive" from Portal. WOW! Audiosurf only costs 9.95$ and comes with a soundtrack that could easily retail for 30$. Audiosurf is a fantastic buy and its low price and high levels of stimulation and replayability will keep any consumer happy. Stop reading this and go buy this game NOW! (It can be bought off of Steam).
